New Delhi: Former Samajwadi Party (SP) leader and actor-turned-politician Jaya Prada on Tuesday joined the BJP and will challenge SP’s heavyweight and her one time mentor in the party Azam Khan from the Rampur parliamentary seat.
The sitting MP from Rampur is BJP’s Nepal Singh. The BJP leadership also decided to swap the parliamentary constituencies of Union minister Maneka Gandhi and her son Varun Gandhi. Now Ms Gandhi will contest from Sultanpur while her son will contest from Pilibhit where SP-BSP-RLD has fielded Hemraj Verma of Akhilesh Yadav led party.
In all, the party’s central election committee on Tuesday released 29 more candidates names from Uttar Pradesh and 10 from West Bengal, including that of veteran actor Joy Mukherjee from
Uluberia and former TMC leader Humayun Kabir from Mursidabad.
